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Goran Svilanović took office as the Secretary General
of the Regional Cooperation Council on 1 January 2013, and his re-appointment
was approved at the summit of the South-East European Cooperation Process
(SEECP) Heads of State or Government in Tirana on 26 June 2015 for a second
term, which began in January 2016.

A
Serbian diplomat and politician, he previously served as Co-ordinator of the
OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (2008-2012). In November 2004, he
became Chairman of Working Table I (democratization and human rights) of the
Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe, where he served until the end of 2007.
He was a member of the Senior Review Group of the Stability Pact, which
proposed the transformation of the Stability Pact into the Regional
Co-operation Council.

From
2000 to 2004, Mr Svilanović was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia, which was renamed to Serbia and Montenegro in 2003.
Between 2000 and 2007, he was a Member of the Serbian Parliament. He was
President of the Civic Alliance of Serbia political party (1999-2004).

With
a Ph.D. from the Union University in Belgrade, Masters and undergraduate law
degrees from the University of Belgrade, Mr Svilanovic has also studied at the
Institute for Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, the University of Saarland in
Germany, and the European University Center for Peace Studies in
Staadtschlaining, Austria.

Mr
Svilanovic has worked with a number of organizations and committees, such as
the Centre for Antiwar Action (1995-1999), the International Commission on the
Balkans (2004-2006) and the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights (2007-2008). Since
2008, Mr Svilanovic has been Assistant Professor of Law at the Union University
in Belgrade.

Goran
Svilanović speaks Serbian and English. He was born on 22 October 1963. He is
married and has two children.